home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!samk
- From: samk@microsoft.com (Sam Kho)
- Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.065527.12730@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 06:55:27 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <16B61C9BE.UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu> <tal691.728050731@huxley>
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <tal691.728050731@huxley> tal691@huxley.anu.edu.au (Tonio Loewald) writes:
- >UC525655@mizzou1.missouri.edu (M.Eaton) writes:
- >
- >It's worse than that. The vendors are probably lying: they won't
- >lower prices if piracy stops -- that's the problem. Otherwise, why
- >
- >And the pirates are lying. Most of them won't pay for software no
- >matter how cheap it is (within practical limits).
- >--
- >
- >Here's a _really_ bad solution to get things rolling.
- >The government puts a tax on computers (based on overall oomph,
- ...
- >the software publishers, who also get money from the govt
- >taxes based on apparent popularity (from central distribution
- >
- >This has a lot of advantages, but requires the government to
- >_efficiently administrate a large program_ -- ie. the tooth fairy.
-
- the day that software vendors will giving away software and
- pirates will be offering to pay for free software will come
- before the day government becomes efficient!
-
- - sam -
-
-
-